Drama, Aesthetics, Military and the Term Theater Of War

Once again I visited Google Translate and found information.  This time, while I have been interested in theater, it was about the term, Theater of War.  The use of the term Theater of War by military was borrowed from Voltaire, who used the term descriptively and satirically.

At Skyrock.com, at a blog Commentairesdefrancais, I learned in an entry called La Satire De La Guerre: Candide de Voltaire, that the term Theater of War, used in World War Two broadly, along with the term European Theater of Operations, originated in Voltaire’s Candide.  (The term theater of war translates directly from the French in Candide's narrative description.) The writer at the entry interprets the paragraph from Candide:

War is characterized primarily by its aesthetics…This view of war is filtered by the internal perspective of Candide attending war as we witness a spectacle…